Debi's Amazing Journeys Continue: Gniezno

We had lovely breakfast- again pprepared by Jakub and had our morning walk to train. Did I mention his flat is a 5 story walk up? I counted 55 steps each way of course. So I hopefully have not put on pounds.
We headed to the little city of GNIEZNO and met two more of Jakub's friends. Brothers who have lovely voices and sing in church choir. This city is the :city of Churches: Churches dot each corner and led up to the huge catheredral- dating fromthe 11th century. We had lunch cafeteria style and I finally had my perogies!

We visited a site that once a Jewish cemetery stood but was destroyed during the Nazi invasion. The Jewish community was small- only about 2000- but nonetheless a target for extermination.
In the catherdral Gniezno’s Cathedral, the final resting place of (parts of) Poland's patron saint, St. Adalbert, is also regarded as the spiritual home of Poland’s former monarchy. Built by the first official ruler of Poland, Mieszko I, not long after his 966 baptism, it’s here that Poland’s first five kings were crowned (Mieszko, despite being the official first ruler of Poland, was not a crowned king).the 'Gniezno doors' actually are the first visual proof that Jews were in this town in the 10th century. There are documents that confirm one of the panels on this bronze door shows a Jewish man.

There s also a site where once a Jewish Synagogue stood. Alicia Kobus- the welcoming woman at Shabbat dinner is responsible for making these Jewish sites marked in this area and in Poznan.

We enjoyed some tea and cake and bid goodbye to Jakub"s friends. Back to Jakub"s flat and a sushi dinner. Today is my final day here and we are headed to Jakub:s home town to have homemade lunch with his his mother and to meet some of his students.

It has been unusally COLD. I was not prepared and am wearing Jakub:s sweat pants and his long warm sweater. In addition I was stupidly searching his bathroom for a hair dryer and not thinking that in fact he does not ne